Book of Hours (Use of Paris)
follower of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25)
c. 1420
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The Boucicaut Master takes his name from the book of hours he made for Jean de Boucicaut (died 1421), marshal of France, who was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. This talented artist, known for his tall, elongated figures with delicate features, exercised profound influence over Parisian manuscript painting during the first decades of the 1400s—a point illustrated by this volume.
